Dan O'Bannon

Dark Star (1974)

Dark Star (1974)
Rating: ★★★★
Jun 9, 2000Space Mission Gone Wrong Comedy
John Carpenter's first film, made as a student project in collaboration with an also unknown Dan O'Bannon. A send-up of the boldly going space exploration of Star Trek, this features a ship where the crew are going stir crazy. The results are hilarious
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Alien (1979)

Alien (1979)
Rating: ★★★★★
May 2, 1999Alien Nasty on a Spaceship
One of the most influential films on this site, producing a host of sequels and making the careers of all involved. At heart, a simple monster on a spaceship film, it is made into a classic through Ridley Scott's relentless suspense and H.R. Giger's design work
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Heavy Metal (1981)

Heavy Metal (1981)
Rating: ★★½
May 3, 2000Adult Animation Anthology
Cult animated film that adapts several stories from the adult fantasy comic-book Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal. These vary but in its better moments that has a trippy cult hallucinatory quality
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Total Recall (1990)

Total Recall (1990)
Rating: ★★
Jun 18, 2005Virtual Memories/Reality Bender/Action
Adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story is killed by being turned into an Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle and by director Paul Verhoeven's burying the reality bending subtleties of the story under bludgeoning ultra-violence
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Screamers (1995)

Screamers (1995)
Rating: ★★★
Jan 11, 2003Evolved Androids/Planetary Journey/Philip K. Dick Adaptation
Modest and underrated Philip K. Dick adaptation that builds reasonable atmosphere during its journey across a planet and doubt as to who among the party might be one of a breed of evolving androids
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AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)

AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Rating: ★★
Oct 4, 2004Alien/Predator Series' Crossover
Beginning as fan mill speculation, 20th Century Fox finally brought their Alien and Predator franchises together on the screen here. The result is an okay effort in the hands of Paul W.S. Anderson, even if it never has the grueling intensity of the early entries in either series
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Total Recall (2012)

Total Recall (2012)
Rating: ★★½
Aug 2, 2012Virtual Memories/Reality Bender/Action
I was never a particular fan of the Schwarzenegger original and this improves on it somewhat. This is far better conceived as an action film with some amazing Cyberpunk designs. On the other hand, the two decades interim has made the story's Philip K. Dick-ian reality bendings seem commonplace
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